Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Walkthrough & Strategy Guide

Published: Jan 25, 2004

Missions-Las Venturas:
Casino

Casino: Fender KetchupHead over to the yellow icon in Las Venturas to
start the Casino missions. As in SF (with the Syndicate missions), these will
take you various places in the city... but they all stem from casinos (what
else?) here in LV. Go to the Four Dragons casino first (it's under
construction) and speak to Woozie by moving to the yellow icon inside the
casino.

Woozie is having problems with his workers... local
bosses are making his life difficult by planting their own guys in your crews.
He offers you a stake in the casino for doing some of the dirty work necessary.
The first bit of this nasty business is tying one of the mob guys to your trunk
and scaring the hell out of him.

The idea is to drive around with him on the hood and
scare him silly. Things that will work are driving fast, going over jumps,
turning quickly, and generally causing mayhem. You don't want to get into
any big pile-ups, or take too much damage, or you'll kill the guy and end the
mission.

Try to get on long stretches of road (taking a left from
the starting point is a good way to do this) and always drive on the wrong side
of the street. The Scare Meter will fill up, and once it's all the way full, he
will begin to gab. When this happens, a yellow blip will appear on the mini-map.
Drive over to it avoiding trouble, and park in the red marker when you get
there. Passing the mission will earn you respect and $5000.

Casino: Explosive
Situation

Now that you know that it's
the Sindacco Family behind the shenanigans, it's time for a little payback...
with a lethal weapon (no, we're not going to work a Passion of the Christ reference in here--rest assured
we thought about it). The first thing you'll need to do is secure some things
that make you go "boom"... explosives. You'll find them in a quarry to the west.
Get in a car and follow the yellow marker on the mini-map.

When you get to the quarry, drive onto the red marker to
trigger a cut scene. The dynamite you need is triggered to blow up in 2:30, so
you have to get there before it does. Drive down to the lower portion of the
quarry and get in the dumptruck... you'll need it to smash the crates of
dynamite (marked by green blips). Drive over each of them, get out of your truck
and snag them. Once you grab all four sticks, the timer will stop counting down.

Security will block the exits, so it's up to you to find
another way out. A blue marker will appear showing you a Sanchez dirtbike. Grab
it and head for the angled conveyor belt displayed in the cutscene. Arrows will
point your way to escape. You'll need to make a series of jumps. Start by
launching off the dirt ramp and continue over another ramp. Stop when you land
and turn right. Go carefully up the conveyor belt, then burst at the end to get
over to the next ledge. Maneuver to the set of stairs next to the conveyor belt
from here, and move over to the conveyor belt to get to the top. From there,
head off to the right to the rock ledge below.

Hug the left wall as you move along the narrow ledge
toward the next marker. Line up with the next marker (on the ramp) and rev as
you approach to clear the gap beyond. This will bring you to a higher ledge. Get
a good distance between. you and the jump... as you'll need to absolutely fly in
order to clear the next jump. Once you land on the higher ledge, swing around an
accelerate past the van here to the narrow opening between the rocks. You're
home free. Go through the gap in the fence and down the incline to the highway.
Follow the yellow blip to the drop, finishing the mission. You'll get respect
and $7000 for your troubles.

Note: Upon
passing this mission, the Quarry will be open for its own set of
missions. Visit the Vehicle Missions
section of the guide for information on that. In addition,
the Heist missions (marked by a green $ inside the casino) will be
available. Stay with the Casino missions for now.

Casino: You've Had Your ChipsWhen you discover that someone's been
putting phony chips in your casino, there's only one place to look--the
Sindacco's, who own a chip-making plant (tidy, huh?). Time to take it down. Get
a vehicle and head to the yellow marker on the outskirts of LV. As you approach,
you'll be told to try to get in unnoticed.

Drive by the main entrance and go through the next
opening on the left side. The factory is the green building. Drive around
it (toward the burger joint) and get out in the narrow alley between the factory
and the concrete wall. Get out and move around the factory on foot,
grabbing the Chainsaw near the crane.
Around the next corner is a large, open door leading into the factory.

As you near the door, you will be spotted, alerting the
guards. Use a fast-firing weapon to smoke them quickly, and snag the weapons
they leave. Be especially alert to grab the Combat Shotgun that is dropped. When
you have eliminated all of the guards, target each of the pieces of
equipment marked by green arrows and bring them down. Don't stand too close, as
you don't want to get near the explosions.

Watch out for more thugs coming in late in the game...
You don't want to get wasted after you've done the work. Once you've hit all of
the targets, you will get a message to return to the casino. Get to the nearest
car and drive back to the yellow blip. This will finish the mission and get you
$10,000.

Casino: Don PeyoteWith a mission title like this, how
could it be anything but The Truth? This mission is also available by going to
the yellow icon... but this time it's outside the casino's doors. The Truth
tells you he took a bunch of Brits, a rock band, up to Arco del Oeste to take
peyote and watch the sun set. You have to round them up, but following the blue
blips on the map.

The first duo you need to find are Paul (as in Kent Paul) and Maccer. Grab a vehicle (make sure it
has seating for four) and make the long schlep out there. Park on the red marker
once you arrive and a cut scene will play. Once you have these two, drive them
to a snake farm, represented by the yellow blip. When you get there,
the proprietors of the farm take umbrage with your new buddies. When it
concludes, kill them all quickly. Make sure you crouch and cycle through the
targets quickly.

Speed back to the new yellow marker on the map. If you
didn't kill all the hicks right away, they will chase you all the way back to
LV. If they aren't dead, make them dead in front of the new casino--Caligula's
Palace. Park on the red and watch the cut scene that unfolds... You'll be
introduced to Rosie (Ken Rosenberg), your brand new inside
contact. After it does, you'll end the mission, and you'll get a quick call
from Woozie. A new icon will also appear inside this casino... which is the next
contact point for this thread. Head there now.

Casino: Intensive CareGo inside the Caligula casino and follow
the white icon to Ken Rosenberg's office. After a lengthy cut scene in which
Rosenberg explains his troubles with the mob, you'll get another mission
involving the Sindacco's--except that this one is a mission of protection.

The mission is to drive to the hospital, pick up the
leader of the family from the hospital and move him to a new. location. But
someone's beaten you to it! The old man is in one of four ambulances cruising
around the city. Track them down by following the red dots on the map.

You'll want to ram each of the ambulances until you find
the one that contains your guy. When you do, keep ramming and shooting it. When
you inflict a good amount of damage, it will pull over. Get out of your car and
run to it, getting inside before backup arrives. Pilot the ambulance back to the
yellow blip, and park in the red marker when you arrive. The mission will earn
you respect and $5000.

Note: Upon
passing this mission, you'll see the old Tenpenny logo (the C) pop up
again on the map. You can go straight to the next Casino mission, or
you can do this one now. We recommend you
do.

Casino: MisappropriationHead over to Tenpenny's C icon on the map
(in Prickle Pine). As always with this guy, you're a pawn in his cover-up
scheme. This time he needs you to whack a guy who has some evidence against him
(surprise, surprise). Drive out to Aldea Malvada to track down the agent in
question.

Follow the red blip on the mini-map. As you near the
position, find the dirt trail that leads up into the bluffs. There are several
agents here, and they are all protecting the guy with the evidence, but you
don't really need to deal with them. Simply sneak up to the left, keeping your
distance as you skirt the complex. As you approach a pair of choppers, you
should see the target (he has a red arrow above him). Blast him and run to pick
up the dossier (make sure another agent doesn't grab it first). When you touch
the dossier, the mission will end.

However... If you
alert the guards too early, the guy will make a break for the chopper and get
in. You'll have to chase him in the other chopper. Your chase will conclude
(after quite a long flight) on a helipad. Land next to him and gun him down.

Casino: The Meat BusinessIf you love run n' gun missions, this is
the one for you. You convince Ken to go to the abattoir to try to reason
with the mob boss. Get in a vehicle and follow the blip over to the plant. Get
out of the ride and enter the building. Watch the cut scene in which (as always)
the sheisse hits the fan.

The gangsters think you're responsible for Johnny's
condition, so they wage all-out war. Fire blocks the exits, so there's one way
out... through all of the baddies. The catch? You'll also have to keep Rosenberg
alive. Kill all of the guys in the hallway quickly, and Rosie will run for a
fire extinguisher.

Run to the open doorway with the fire in it and hose
down the goons beyond. Rosie will kill the fire. When he does, move into the
room and take down the targets here, sure to use cover. Make sure you keep an
eye on the mini-map to see where the remaining dudes are. When you clean out the
first room, move toward the next, using the windows that look into it as cover
as you crouch and fire.

From this room, move through the right door into a room
full of boxes. Watch out for thugs perched atop them, and spray them with
bullets. When all the targets go down, finish weaving through the boxes and exit
at the door indicated by the yellow marker. Get in a car and drive Rosie back to
the casino, following the yellow blip as always. The mission will yield respect
and $8000.

Note: Upon
completion, two icons will pop up on the map. The old yellow
icon is there at the Four Dragon Casino, and a new D will appear. This is
a single Madd Dogg mission that needs to be finished in order to open one
of the missions later on.

Casino: Fish in a BarrelHead back to the yellow icon at the Four
Dragons Hotel (inside the casino again) and step on the red marker. This is not
a mission, but a cutscene that moves the story along. You'll get a call from
Ken, but from here, we recommend heading to the D icon on the map and knocking
out Madd Dogg's mission. After that, you can go back to Caligula's.

Casino: Madd DoggGo to the D icon on the map-- in front of
the Royal Casino on the strip-- and step on the red marker in order to trigger
the introductory cut scene. In it, you'll see Madd Dogg about to jump to his
death. You, as the cause of most of his problems, have to help him!

When the cut scene concludes, you'll need to get to a
pickup truck as quickly as possible and save the rapper. Follow the blue blip to
the truck in the lot. Drive it over to the marker under Madd Dogg. He will pace
back and forth along the ledge and eventually jump.Using the gas and reverse,
stay under him the whole time. Your aim is to catch him in the back of the
truck, where the boxes are stacked.

If you catch him correctly, he will survive but take a
beating on the fall. You have to get him to the hospital without letting him
take too much damage. On your way over to the yellow blip on the map, don't let
your car get dinged up, or MD will suffer more bodily harm... and no one wants
that. Deliver him safely and the mission will end, earning you some respect.

Casino: FreefallReturn to Caligula's and head to the white
icon to trigger another cut scene with Ken Rosenberg. He's being visited by a
friend from Liberty City... and his special visitor is in danger. Mob business?
You bet. You're commissioned to stop the threat.

Drive out to the yellow blip at the airport. Once you
get there, head through the front gates and drive to the blue blip to steal an
airplane. Be sure to grab the Body Armor
in the corner of the hangar before getting in the indicated plane. Taxi
out to the runway and take off (no need to retract landing gear, because that's
impossible).

Take off in the direction of the yellow blip and consult
the mini-map to see if the plane you're tailing is above or below you (if above,
the marker will point up, and vice versa). Make sure you are at the same
level when you approach the other aircraft. As you do, a corona will appear
behind it. Stay steady and fly into it to trigger a cut scene of you boarding
the other plane.

When you get aboard, the game will turn into a sort of
Time Crisis mini-game. Duck behind cover using L2
and R2, shoot using L1. Four hitmen will pop up from behind the seats. Target
and drop them as they appear. When they all go down, the pilot will emerge.
Smoke him too and take over the plane. Follow the yellow blip back to Las
Venturas. Keep an eye on the big map to see you're aligned with the runway as
you come in. Slow down well ahead of time and put your landing gear down. Land
softly and safely on the runway to earm $15,000 and some respect.

Note: If
you've done the Tenpenny "Misappropriation" mission, you will get a call
from him, asking you to meet him out in the desert. The C icon will appear
out there. If you haven't done Misappropriation, do it now. Then return
here for the next mission.

Casino: High NoonGo to the desert toward the "C" Tenpenny
icon in Las Brujas. Watch the cut scene... it essentially portrays the demise of
your favorite team of crooked cops. After it concludes, you'll be in hot pursuit
of Pulaski.

Get in the nearby dune buggy and ram him as he's taking
off. Follow him as he snakes out of the valley and onto the highway. Get behind
him and ram him when possible, trying to cause damage to his vehicle. He will
almost always make for a small town and drive around in there for awhile, giving
you plenty of opportunity to smash and shoot him up. His vehicle is resilient,
though, so it will require a lot of damage. Sometimes, you can get him wedged in
a corner. If this happens, get out and jack his car, and use it to run him over.

It's likely that your buggy will take a lot of knocks
and get too damaged itself. If this happens, get in something beefy but somewhat
fast, like the Ranger. Before long, Pulaski will head to the highway again, so
follow him and ram him until his car is disabled. When it is, he'll get out. Run
him over or gun him down. Either way, killing Pulaski will finish this
mission.

Note:
Shortly after the mission, you will get a call from Ken (provided you have
finished Green Goo, Madd Dogg and Freefall as well).

Casino: Saint Mark's BistroReturn to Caligula's and go back to Ken's
office. You'll earn kudos from Salvatore Leone, who has another job for you...
and it entails heading all the way to Liberty City. For now, drive to the yellow
marker to get to the airport. Once you get through the gate, head over to the
blue blip to get to the jet.

As you fly over the yellow blip on the map, you will
immediately be placed in Liberty City. After a short cutscene, you'll find
yourself in an all-out battle with the Forelli family. Duck behind the low wall
and press target to nail the gangsters in the room beyond. When they drop, move
down the stairs and pop the guys in the room below. Swing around and waste the
chumps behind the bar.

Carefully make your way down the stairs, blasting guys
as you move through the kitchen. Take the next passage out to the stairs
overlooking a back lot. Crouch here and take down the throng of baddies below.
When they all die, you will automatically be placed in the jet back to Las
Venturas. Take a look at the map as you're approaching the city to make sure
you're lined up with the runway. Put the landing gear down and gently nudge to
the ground. Finishing the mission will complete the Casino missions and earn you
$20,000.

Note: After
the mission concludes, you'll get a call from Leone. If you haven't
finished the Heist missions, he will say one thing, and if you
have... he'll say another (either way, the familiar yellow icon
will appear at the Four Dragons). If you haven't done Heist, go to
the green $ there, and if you have, go to the yellow blip on the map to
finish up those missions. Both strategies can be found in the Heist
walkthrough.

At this point, you can also go back to Los Santos
and finish up the game (without doing the Heist missions). Just go to the
yellow icon before starting the Heist missions and you'll head
back.